Belt-buckle.



E. A. GUTHMAN.

BELT BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.14,1912.

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WITNESSES ATTORNEYS ELI A. GUT, 015 NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 25, 19113.

Application filed August 14, 1912. Serial No. 114,996.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELI A. GUTHMAX, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, Bensonhurst, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Belt-Buckle of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide a buckle having means for attachment to the belt strap to conceal the raw edge and avoid the doubling or loop of common practice: to provide a buckle adapted for construct-ion from sheet metal and provided with a bar formed integrally with the buckle frame and arranged to'provide a pivot for the. buckle tongue: to provide a buckle the construction whereof is economical: to provide a buckle which will avoid the breaking orcreasing of the enamel or finish of fancy leathers.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speci fication in which like characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views and in V which:

a on the lines 44: in Fig. 3.

lln the usual practice belts are provided with buckles being attached thereto by means of aloop formed in the end of the buckle. en the leather from which the belt is formed is furnished with an enamel or hard finished surface. this surface is' broken in bending around the cross bar with which the buckle is provided. Uftentimes when the leather is new the breahng of the finish does not occur until after a short period of use. -en, howeven this defect becomes apparent the goods are returned to the manufacturer, entailing a serious loss and in order to provide for this loss, a considerable increase in the retail price of the goods. A further serious objection arising to the above mentioned method of attaching the belt is that leathers of the character named are usually heavy and the loop forms a bulky andsometimes unsightly feature 1n the construction. It is to overcome these objections that l have constructed the buckle 1n the manner hereinafter set forth.

Coincident with the construction of a buckle having the objects referred to in view, I have devised a buckle which is more economical and in certain practice better adapted to the work performed than is the buckle having an attached solid cross bar.

lhe buckle herein described may be con structed from certain malleablecast metals. ll prefer, however, to construct the buckle from sheet metal, stamping the same in the first operatlon to the form illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. In the said figure of the drawings the buckle is of the l-l-tvpe, 111 which the cross bar 9 extends vertically between the ends '10-1O of the frame and intermediate the sides 11 and 12 of the said frame. The frame parts 10, 11 and 12 are.

shaped to any suitable and desired design.

The cross bar 9 is shaped in the blank to provide a relatively narrow side extension 13 and a relatively wide side extension 1 1. See Fig. 1 of the drawings. In one or more operations subsequent to the formation of the blank disclosed in Fig. 1 of the drawing, the extensions 13 and 14 are bent down forming a suitable mandrel, or form, to form a pocket for the reception of the raw or cut end of the belt 15.

The pivot or cylindrical portion of the cross bar 9 on which the tongue 16 is mounted is formed by providing in the blank the equally extended tabs 17. In the finished productthe tabs 17 are bent to form a pivotfor the tongue 16. When finished the buckle end 18 of the tongu around the pivot formed by the tabs 17. lit will be seen by reference to Fig. 3 of drawings that the belt 15 is furnished. with an eye 19 through which the end 18 of the tongue 16 is extended, thereby vi: holding the raw or cut end of the belt in the grip of the side extensions 13 and 1 1.

Buckles constructed and arranged as above set forth are attached to the belt 15 by extending between the side extensions 13 and let a cut or raw end of the belt and while thus held clamping the side extensions 13 and 14 upon the interposed leather. in

some instances the metal is stout enough and the pressure imparted thereto is great enough to hold the leather in the grip of the said side extensions. Where, however, such is not the case, the edges of oneor both of eltiisbent' leather, is completely avoided.

the said side extensions are provided with the spurs 20, best seen in Fig. 1 of the drawings. These spurs are bent at an angle to the side extensions 13 and 14: prior to turning the same vupon the leather of the belt 15, and in this position they penetrate through the leather to form a rigid and firm grip or hold of the buckle upon the belt. The beltthus provided with a buckle, it will be observed, has no bend in the leather at the point of attachment of the belt and buckle, theref0re','the objection above noted, due to the breaking of the finish of the Further, it will be observed, with a belt and buckle constructed as described the bulkiness due tothe turning of the double thickness of leather around the cross bar is avoided, and the belt and buckle thus formed is adapted to lie closer to the-person and form a neater appearing article of personal wear. It will also be observed that the buckle thus constructed saves in the cost of construction both in the metal and in the labor of assemblage. The metal utilized in forming the present bar 9 is that whichwould be cast aside it the frame was stamped as a separate piece to bethereafter provided with a cross bar of the ordinary'or usual type.

Having thus described my invention, what I claimand desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A buckle having an integrally-formed frame and cross bar, said cross bar having a cylindrical pivot section comprising two curled tabs of sheet metal arr-an ed to form a tube and said cross bar being rther provided with laterally disposed centrally separated clamping extensions bentin superposed relation to receive therebetween a belt end and to hold the same when compressed thereon, said clamping sections being separated in line with said pivot section, to accommodate 'a tongue for said buckle, when mounted thereon.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

'ELI A. GUTHMAN.

Witnesses E. F. MURnooK, PHILIP D. Romance. 

